P.S. Email and Text Killing the Postscript

11/13/2012 1:34PM

As emails are getting ever shorter -- often with everything but their subject line going unread altogether -- and the shrthnd of txt msgs is becoming acceptable even in business communication -- the post -script is growing more and more obscure and antiquated. Katie Rosman has details on Lunch Break.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... I ... oh ... yes ... it is dying on that happening Katie Rosman is right here to explain so ... this seems to be the most important after all that PSS we buried all the good stuff over and you say E-mail killed the PS or skill ... E-mail is killing the PSP has people are so afraid that I'm an information there's any knocking the end of the last thing they wanna do is put it after the sign ... I'm increasingly you we aren't even open the emails were just reading this object lying or kill the ants and I'm as well ... glancing right at the top seller and I E-mail becomes more tech slight text message like in terms of bad language is reduced to reduce were not even trying to craft letters ... almost every anymore ... the key falling by the wayside and it is sad because it is sort of the place for fuel and sand cement and the end it as one person described it to me and through the wind is you walk away I think you can see why most of the put that week in the subject line now for its nadir never get to that we ... do this and ... this is such a ... great history when it come from ... well I hang it traces back to the hundreds and hundreds of years aam ... said the fifteen hundreds is when the OED surfers acknowledges it but it was ... bland and this is so intense in a letter writing was mostly the domain of men in the sixteen seventeen hundreds it was for ... military communication professional communication because it was really really expensive to send letters to the man ... theres some sweeping coastal rate reduction all the sudden letter writing team something the middle class the deal and then when im really really tight to it and they made that ... how this bond and literary and lighting incense Mantell and ... like the spot only written with that ... that there and play piano on the pony Express and that's when the tea as as we've come to know it really really did barrel ads ... that have me at this so I found this guy but from the eighteen hundreds that says you know women are guilty of putting the best parts of the ladder and iPads any ... insight into ... the kitchen ... now you know if you think about the reasons that EPS is dying to me to look at Twitter and Facebook the iPhone's this is just on getting ... anything out that get some eye to pay attention to you immediately and you sometimes have a one hundred forty character and forty s ... and characters to do that yet um you know and the NDP don't have to own two weeks of the piano once and now with ... this mutation is becomes self function also that logistics it's about here's we can now only in as few letters is seen as I can tell ATO there ... nobody at the attention span or the entrance and started the sweet little nothings they can take a minute to be expressed ... at the same time a lot of what we would put it in the iPad's little family stories anecdotes it was my daughter's birthday Renault ... little touches like that we are putting on Facebook and elsewhere and and I think there's something of an an assumption I'm close enough to this person that they'd be interested to know it's my daughter's birthday then they're ... my Facebook friend are falling and Twitter and again in the information that I now use the TW by the way instead the TWC net he adds is and should be TW let's use our debt by the way and people are right and getting their their key into mnemonic probably being ignored anyway ... you have it all right Katie Rosman thank the much more that things are being held in ...